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The Evolving Panorama of Data
Summary
Rebecca Parsons proposes taking a different look at data, using different approaches and tools, then looks at some of the ways social data is used these days.
Bio
Dr. Rebecca Parsons is CTO at ThoughtWorks. She has more than 20 years of application development experience, in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent internet services. She has extensive experience leading in the creation of large-scale distributed object applications, services based applications, and the integration of disparate systems. rebeccaparsons.com @rebeccaparsons
About the conference
Neo4j is a robust (fully ACID) transactional property graph database. Due to its graph data model, Neo4j is highly agile and blazing fast. For connected data operations, Neo4j runs a thousand times faster than relational databases.
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Fooled by Randomness
by Udayan Banerjee,
Fooled by Randomness
by Udayan Banerjee,
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When thinking about Big Data, 2 questions always come to my mind:
1. How can you be sure if there is any hidden pattern in your big data that you can use?
2. Even if you find a pattern, how can you be sure that what appears to be a trend is a random variation?
setandbma.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/big-data-suc...